I read this very inter­est­ing arti­cle in the New York Times about the way the White House is chang­ing under Obama. The fol­low­ing quote caught my eye: “Under Mr. Bush, punc­tu­al­ity was a virtue. Meet­ings started early — the for­mer pres­i­dent once locked Sec­re­tary of State Colin L. Pow­ell out of the Cab­i­net Room when Mr. […]

Quick Note: This post was mostly writ­ten almost a month ago, but it took me a while to fin­ish it. Then I fin­ished it, and it took me a while to get around to post­ing it. So finally, here it is. I was fly­ing from Austin to Kennedy to Burling­ton for Christ­mas with the LMF […]

Here’s what 87 dol­lars Amer­i­can can get you nowa­days. This is an 87 dol­lar bot­tle of allergy eye drops: Here’s the same bot­tle with two of his friends, who were free sam­ples given to me by my Aller­gist when I saw him last Decem­ber: the indig­nity of this was so great that the bot­tle on the […]